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What do you think of myspace?

Ok, so most people these days have myspaces, well it has become one of those places for online predators. And of course my parents are checking it, they even went far to getting a myspace and checking mine, and I was curious of to what people think of it and what you think will come of it.

*Mods, I looked for a thread like this one and was not succesful so yea my apologies if there is*

^That's what I thought, too when I got one...Until I actually enhanced it a bit...Now I'm usually there. But, my parents don't know I have a MySpace...My Dad's anti-internet and my Mom...I don't think she even knows what it is...lol.

I've been looking for members with MySpace accounts for while...this thread will help...

I like MySpace. It is a good way to communicate with friends in a way which is a little more personal that e-mail or instant messaging. Since I do not like IMs, I just use MySpace.
The one annoying thing about it is getting Friend Requests from random people who you do not know, and have nothing in common with(from what you can tell from their page).
and with just a little bit of knowledge of the various internet codes, you can customize your page like crazy, although I like to leave my fairly plain, with the exception of my background and scroll type....

Ha ha, I have not even heard of this thing called myspace...ahhhh, I must not be with it=p Anyway, it seems like something I would not be interested in having, I am not on the computer much, and I personally do not think I would have time for something such as a myspace...I barely have time for this place. Anyway, I am assuming that as long as there are people interested in it then it will keep running, however if there is an abundance of predators visiting, then it might be something people will look more closely at and see if there is a possible solution to prevent online predators, or maybe they will just advise people to be more careful and make sure parents are checking their children's sites and such.

Hmm well I do have a MySpace account...of course it wasn't so easy. My mom found my picture online and she freaked out 'cause she watches the news too much about freakin' pedaphiles. I didn't see why she was freaked out. I'm smarter than that. I don't go talk to older perverted guys and tell them where I live like some idiot teenagers out there.

MySpace is just another one of those communication's with your friends and plus it's entertainment. Our parent's need to realize that we're not in kindergarten and that we do know what's going on in the world.

well, to add on to what I was saying, there's a school near us *me and Kaoru217* that checks for their students to see if they have a myspace, they tell their parents and sometimes make them shut it down, it's our lives and our choice to make a myspace, it's our desicion if we talk to people online, not our parents or teachers at that matter

well, to add on to what I was saying, there's a school near us *me and Kaoru217* that checks for their students to see if they have a myspace, they tell their parents and sometimes make them shut it down, it's our lives and our choice to make a myspace, it's our desicion if we talk to people online, not our parents or teachers at that matter

I'm sure most parents understand that it is your life, but they are just trying to keep their children safe, and yes, there is a line between checking to make sure somthing is safe and snooping. Hopefully parents are NOT doing the latter, but even so, most parents snoop because they want to keep their children safe. I am not trying to say that it should be mandatory for parents or teachers to check the things kids are doing online, I am just suggesting that parents talk with their kids about the internet and such and vice versa^^

Forums are a lot better. I'd have to agree on that. From the look of myspace, it's either:
1.) Just a place to show off your page, get a bunch of friends you don't even talk to, and whine about not having any friends/comments/messages.

2.) Another form of communication besides Email, storing information, keeping in touch with friends etc.

Myspace is a vessel of drama. With the click of a button you can see what your significant other, friends or whoever is saying to others and what is being said to them. It's an obvious place for pointless paranoia to stem. I'm a pretty relaxed individual. Any unecessary conflict comes to me as a waste of words and time. More often than not myspace causes this.

I've seen it ruin things for people.

I also find the concept of posting glorifying yourself on account for others to "befriend you" a bit pointless and vain. Some people have literally 10,000 friends and view the site as nothing but a popularity contest. Boo to that. I'll stick to envelopes, stamps and a mailbox, thanks.

Toohey:"We're alone, why don't you tell me what you think of me?"Roark: "But I don't think of you."

i don't se eth big hype about myspace. Really posting your pics and info about you. Mainly its a dating web site to me. All of my friends talk about it everyday and are erging me to do it, but i don't want to becasue its a waist of time and hassle.

Myspace is a vessel of drama. With the click of a button you can see what your significant other, friends or whoever is saying to others and what is being said to them. It's an obvious place for pointless paranoia to stem. I'm a pretty relaxed individual. Any unecessary conflict comes to me as a waste of words and time. More often than not myspace causes this.

I've seen it ruin things for people.

I also find the concept of posting glorifying yourself on account for others to "befriend you" a bit pointless and vain. Some people have literally 10,000 friends and view the site as nothing but a popularity contest. Boo to that. I'll stick to envelopes, stamps and a mailbox, thanks.

Amen to to that,I agree 100%.If you really think about it,the whole concept of MySpace is just weird,seriously.

Social expectations diminish an individual's ability to think as an individual.

A lot of people at my school, my friends, and family have Myspace, and everybody asks me if I have Myspace. It gets so annoying when they ask that question, I don't have an account there because I don't want one; it'll probably get boring for me. One time at school, some people went to Myspace during class and lunch then they got in trouble and the school blocked Myspace.

Frankly, I don't like it. Why? Not because it's a weblog site...I don't care about that. It's that it encourages people to put up information that makes them easy to track down. And you DON'T have to be a member to search...not that that would stop it. I've found numerous current and former classmates with NO trouble.

I actually thought myspace is something that we are all using in North America but i realize there are many negative points. Ive been a member on myspace in only a month, and i already have been tagged by many peoples i do not know. They send me messages without being on my friend list and say many things to let you know that they scarily know about your family background, stalkers. Not a joke, my graphic design teacher looked at myspace before, she think myspace is a very public place to meet peoples around the world. Which is a site she wouldnt let her kids to play with.

I still get on my myspace, but for the safety, i turned on safety mode. Only peoples i know can send me friend requests by typing their names down before i accept. The sad thing about myspace is that peoples NOT on your friendlist can send you messages. Blocking peoples i do not know is the best way to avoid dangers. One of my friends actually got attacked by someone he does not know, he put fake infos about himself because it'ds gonna be public, but someone still saw his page and know everything about him, even his weight! i checked that person's page and none of us know that person which was scary, even her picture look scary! As Tira mentioned, myspace is just a vessel of drama and i totally agree with that.

Sometime it is very annoying when someone i dunno send me a message saying "hey you look kool, can i add you?" i'd just straightly deny it, i dun like making friends that way.

Myspace acts weird sometime, especially the music!!!!! it stops then plays again, and stops and plays again. And the music searcher works realli bad ><;

The layout problem which i realli would not compliment about, its that....if i make a list like this...example.

[x] akichan
[x] female
[x] high school

the list would turn out like this...

[x]akichan[x]female[x]highschool

weird eh.

Even though there are many negative points on myspace, i still get on anyway. Btw, the meanest thing i have done on myspace was deleting Tom from my friendlist lol!!! I just dun like somebody i dunno to be on my friendlist, but if its peoples from AF adding me, please type in your username here on AF so i'll know, ill accept^^;.

OMG!! First of all, this thread is awesome!! Well, kids at my school are
always talking about myspace and I always get the question if I have this
or a xanga (another site related to myspace). Which is seriously annoying
too, so I finally made an account and I find that site to be really boring,
because people I don't know add me as their friends and we don't even keep
in touch at all.
My mom had to approve of that site before I could sign up, and she made
me watch this channel with a special thing about internet safety. Which I'd
like to thank Kaoru217, I really do wish parents wouldn't underestimate us.
So I'm hoping to make friends who I DO know, so if anybody'd like to be my
friend, I'd be more than happy to^_^ Besides, this forum is the best thing
that's ever happened to me on the internet^^